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parkinsons-law from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/parkinsons-law@git:20260530.3e17152Pins git:20260530.3e17152 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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parkinsons-law/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- git:20260530.3e17152, committed May 30, 2026
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- License
- MIT
Apply Parkinson's Law when discussing project planning, sprint duration, deadline setting, scope creep, or why work seems to expand no matter how much time is allocated. Trigger on phrases like "we always use up all the time we're given", "if we give the team a month they'll take a month", "why does scope keep growing?", "should we set tighter deadlines?", or any discussion about the relationship between available time and how long work takes. Parkinson's Law is a universal phenomenon in…
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What the file says
# Parkinson's Law > "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." > — Cyril Parkinson, 1955 ## The core idea Given more time to complete a task, people use it — through more elaborate solutions, more polishing, more scope, more second-guessing, or simply slower pace. The work doesn't have a fixed duration; it stretches to fill whatever container you give it. Parkinson observed this originally in bureaucracies (a report that could be done in one day takes three when three are allocated), but the pattern is universal in knowledge work. ## Why it happens **Effort adjusts to perceived time available.** If you have a week, you approach a problem as a week-long problem. If you have a day, you find the 80% solution that matters. **Scope expands with available time.** Extra time rarely stays empty — people find adjacent improvements, additional polish, more edge cases to handle, more documentation to write. This isn't laziness; it's often genuine value-adding activity. But the result is that the task always ends up using the time. …
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How to install
mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/parkinsons-law@sha256:6a44d3dd2afb1a2cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260530.3e17152, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
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